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A dry wind from the Sahara that prevails in Egypt about fifty days. Hence its name⁠—Khamsin. ↩ + 

I have tried to embody in these stanzas the idea, shared partly by the Sufi, that God and the Universe are one. ↩ + 

Famous Sufi poet of Persia. ↩ + 

Famous Sufi poet of Persia. ↩ + 

Sufi philosopher and poet of Arabia. ↩ + 

Famous Sufi poet of Persia. ↩ + 

Sufi philosopher and poet of Arabia. ↩ + 

Sufi philosopher and poet of Arabia. ↩ + 

Famous Sufi poet of Persia. ↩ + 

Famous Sufi poet of Persia. ↩ + 

The foremost Sufi poet of Arabia. ↩ + 